Recent content by Bearhtr67

I just purchased a Tar River saya 507. I've heard that some quick hitches won't work. What one have you guys had success with?

I've tried corn on two occasions but with disappointing results. Not because it didn't grow but because of our black bear population. The first time we planted 2 acres or corn and the last week of September the bears ate the entire field in less than a week. The next year we planted 10 acres...

I would second this idea

I haven't been in the market for a disk in a while and things have changed. I think we brought ours about 20 years ago. There disks still look well thought out. Here is a link and the video that is attached...

I just looked them up and edited my post. I'm not sure exactly what's up with them. It still looks like a similar design but its slightly different then what I'm used to seeing with them.

We have used the Leinbach Machinery disk. It's a 3 point hitch style boxed frame disk with 4 gangs with 5 disks each 20 total 20" in size I believe its 82" wide and weighs 810lbs. To me one of it's best features is it's crank handle to easily adjust the gang angles...

We don't fertilize most of our fall plots but I do with all of my spring plantings. Even with TNM on some of our fields for the past 8-9 years, we have such dense clay with almost no top soil on most of our fields. With our spring plantings there is a big difference between fertilized and...

I've wanted to try manure for years but just didn't know how to get started. First trying to find a source for the manure then the expense of a manure spreader and a tractor with a loader both of which I don't have. Maybe a new tractor with a loader in our future!

While we have been planting food plots on our farm for over 30 years now and learning new techniques along the way, the one thing that we haven't experimented with is different fertilizers. Standard synthetic ag fertilizer and pulverized ag lime for 30+ years now. What other options (manure...

Well said

Whitetails are finicky eaters when they have choices, they eat by what their nutritional needs are. Just look at another plant like plantains, at times deer won't touch them and then you look a few weeks later and they are eaten to the ground.

I've never tried radishes but I might have to give them a try.

Same with us as swampcat normally nice and green. I have a neighbor that loves to plant brassica because in his mind they look great but I've never seen any evidence that they have eaten his either.

We see the same here in our area of Virginia, the deer won't touch the brassica but with that being said we still plant some turnip in our mixes because they are good soil builders. We also have very heavy clay soil so the large deep taproot help with opening up the soil.

Thanks for accepting me into the group. A little about me, even though I'm new here I'm not new to wildlife food plots. We started planting food plots in 1989 with a small white clover plot about 1/2 acre in size and have been expanding and learning ever since and even though we have been doing...